Steve sold a vintage Pendleton “loop collar board” shirt, USA Made, some of the best shirts you can find. Why is it called a board shirt you ask? Because back in the 50s and 60s, The Beach Boys would wear these for surfing! They were even originally named The Pendletones. What!
Scavenger Life Episode 323: What Keeps You Up At Night?
The dream of quitting your job and running an eBay business is supposed to lessen the stress of life. And it’s true in many ways. You can work on what you want to work on (as long as you’re working). You can choose your days off. You can go watch a movie in the middle of the week. You can travel anytime you want. This is the dream.
In reality, there’s a lot of stress to running your own business. And if you’re ambitious you keep adding more and more things to the pot, trying to build on success. It’s just how the mind works. We run an eBay business to have calm in our lives, but then we purposefully create stress by taking on new projects. If one thing is successful, maybe this other thing will work too. Go figure.
Last week someone mentioned that criminals use eBay to launder money and sell illegal items. Check out this Gizmoto article.
Hope you had a good week.
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Our Store Week August 6-12, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,853
Items Sold: 56
Cost of Items Sold: $85
Total Sales: $1,625.29
Highest Price Sold: $170 (vintage light)
Average Price Sold: $29.02
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $12
Number of items listed this week: 100
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 1 items for $31.44
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1170
Items Sold: 4
Cost of Items Sold: $10
Total Sales: $94.43
Highest Price Sold: $40 (vintage bowl)
Average Price Sold: $23.60
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends
Working for yourself has it’s perks, like taking time to do other things (like relax) on any random day. That being said, we often forget to do it and just work all the time. Having family visit from out of town made us slow down a bit and take a break to do some fun stuff like swimming and cooking on the grill! Our eBay store is still going strong despite the dead of summer. Hope your week was great too.
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Our Store Week July 30-August 5, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,784
Items Sold: 59
Cost of Items Sold: $127
Total Sales: $2,370.11
Highest Price Sold: $300 (vintage NFL jacket)
Average Price Sold: $40.17
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $25
Number of items listed this week: 75
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1174
Items Sold: 10
Cost of Items Sold: $21
Total Sales: $350.66
Highest Price Sold: $90 (vintage trunk)
Average Price Sold: $80 (vintage sharpening stone)
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 321: Lists Will Set You Free
Jay’s favorite thing to do it to make lists. Lists and lists and lists. Taking to-do items off your mind helps relieve the stress of getting things done. Whether its for eBay, a house renovation or our video production, Jay has got lists. How do you handle your to-do lists?
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Our Store Week July 23-29, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,724
Items Sold: 57
Cost of Items Sold: $295
Total Sales: $2,700.96
Highest Price Sold: $875 (mattress)
Average Price Sold: $47.38
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1183
Items Sold: 14
Cost of Items Sold: $25
Total Sales: $334.66
Highest Price Sold: $90 (vintage trunk)
Average Price Sold: $23.90
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going
It was a busy week on eBay, our video job and at the house renovation. Sometimes feels like juggling, but it’s all stress we’ve invited into our lives and we love it. Hope your week was great too!
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Our Store Week July 16-22, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,774
Items Sold: 79
Cost of Items Sold: $188
Total Sales: $2,220.55
Highest Price Sold: $200 (vintage prayer rug)
Average Price Sold: $28.10
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 40
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 1 items for $25
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1196
Items Sold: 14
Cost of Items Sold: $19
Total Sales: $388.76
Highest Price Sold: $60 (pair of leg warmers)
Average Price Sold: $27.76
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 319: Being Adults, Making Decisions
This week was probably the busiest week we’ve had all year. It was our helper’s last 20 hour week, so the ebay push was on. Our renovation is down to the last many, tiny details. We started a big freelance video project for a new client. Lots of plates spinning. We were also planning on taking a trip to New York City in a couple days. Could we handle it all at once? Not really. So we decided to put NYC on hold. Something we’ve never done! But it had to happen. Boo!
Hope your week was great!
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Our Store Week July 9-15, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,771
Items Sold: 44
Cost of Items Sold: $67
Total Sales: $1,648.23
Highest Price Sold: $200 (vintage painting)
Average Price Sold: $37.45
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $8
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 1 items for $25
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1208
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $15
Total Sales: $288.11
Highest Price Sold: $60 (vintage swimming caps)
Average Price Sold: $48.01
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 318: Spending Money Should Be Painful
As we’ve mentioned before, we’ve been spending all of our money on the new renovation which is about to be finished. We got an email this week that sparked the conversation about spending money and how it is, and should be, painful. What do you think? Hope you’re having a great week so far!
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Our Store Week July 2-8, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,820
Items Sold: 61
Cost of Items Sold: $151
Total Sales: $2,212.21
Highest Price Sold: $170 (vintage denim jacket)
Average Price Sold: $38.47
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $16
Number of items listed this week: 30
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1219
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $12
Total Sales: $202.08
Highest Price Sold: $50 (vintage lamp)
Average Price Sold: $33.68
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 317: Scavenger Executives
We decided to take a mini “vacation” and rent a hotel room in the next big city over from us for a couple nights. We got a deal online, needed to do some stuff in town, so why not? Of course we still recorded the podcast! Just another reminder, if noreply@scavengerlife.com is sending your forum emails to spam, please unmark them as spam and your email provider should re-recognize our emailer. We’re working on a better fix, but for now, this is the best we can do!
Hope you had a great week. Happy 4th!
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Our Store Week June 25-July1, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,865
Items Sold: 52
Cost of Items Sold: $98
Total Sales: $1,987.15
Highest Price Sold: $150 (vintage hiking boots)
Average Price Sold: $38.21
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $8
Number of items listed this week: 100
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1223
Items Sold: 14
Cost of Items Sold: $28
Total Sales: $584.10
Highest Price Sold: $65 (vintage bag)
Average Price Sold: $41.72
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 316: Craigslist Road Trips- We Live For A Deal
This week saw us seriously scavenging high end furniture on Craigslist for our new rental. It took a lot of driving, but we think it’s worth it. Also, check your spam folders for forum messages. Gmail seems to think that noreply@scavengerlife.com is a spammer, oh no! We’re working to fix that. Paypal will soon allow instant money transfers to your bank. It’s about time. eBay reminds us via Youtube that they have a Community Forum. Hope they start to moderate it so it’s no longer a pit of gloom and doom.
Hope you had a great week!
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Our Store Week June 18-24, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,784
Items Sold: 56
Cost of Items Sold: $95
Total Sales: $1,614.51
Highest Price Sold: $100 (vintage cigar box)
Average Price Sold: $28.83
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $18
Number of items listed this week: 75
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1233
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $24
Total Sales: $146.26
Highest Price Sold: $42 (vintage photograph)
Average Price Sold: $24.36
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Scavenger Life Episode 315: Okay, you’re making money. Now what?
A couple weeks ago, we were talking about our backup plan to eBay. But many commenters on the forum were discussing that eBay IS their backup plan to their current job, which makes a lot of sense since so many eBay sellers sell part time on top of their W-2 jobs and families.
I guess a more accurate question we’re always asking ourselves is “what do we really want to be doing”? Scavenging bought us our freedom from having to work for other people. But once we realized we had created a steady pipeline of money on eBay that consistently paid our bills, was this enough? Did we want to just sell online for the rest of our lives? What did we really want to be doing?
The honest answer is that we don’t really know. I think a lot of us are unsure about what we want to be when we grow up if backed into a corner. Sure, we all want/deserve some leisure. A little freedom from worry. Keep a roof over your head. Be able to send your kids to college. Fix the car if it breaks down. But once you’ve figured out those things, what do you REALLY want to do with your time? What challenges do you want to take on? When you’re on your death bed, what’s going to make you feel at peace?
Our strategy is just to evolve step by step. We learned that we like using our extra eBay profits to renovate houses for rent. We love the challenge of taking a house in bad shape and making it awesome. Design is fun. Scavenging and re-using old materials is so satisfying. And then these rentals are earning us more money to evolve further. Every day isn’t glamorous, but it sure is an adventure of our making.
We talked about buying a new-to-us, used iPhone 5c on eBay (it’s pink!) and hooking it up on Ting. We love Ting, you should use Ting. Digital scavenging is fun!
Hope you had a good week.
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Our Store Week June 11-17, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,771
Items Sold: 59
Cost of Items Sold: $99
Total Sales: $1,857.20
Highest Price Sold: $110 (vintage brooch)
Average Price Sold: $31.47
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $12
Number of items listed this week: 75
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1239
Items Sold: 9
Cost of Items Sold: $50
Total Sales: $366.68
Highest Price Sold: $90 (vintage record player)
Average Price Sold: $40.74
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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